For the record, I had planned to write about how Eddie Butler was effectively wild Friday night and about how it was clear the adrenaline dump precipitated by his first Cubs start was evident in the early going. But because my analytical skills are so finely honed, that all sounds redundant when you hear Butler talk about the start. Either that, or I picked out the two most obvious tropes to describe his performance.
“I think I was effectively wild,” Butler told Jesse Rogers (I can hear Bruce Levine in the video too) through a wry smile. “I threw enough strikes and moved the ball around enough to keep ’em off balance.